"dance companies. In 2008, Ballet Theatre of Queensland presented performances of ""The Sleeping Princess"" in Brisbane and on tour in Toowoomba. Previous years have seen productions of ""Coppélia"", ""The Nutcracker"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Pinnochio"", ""Aladdin"", ""Paquita"" and many others. As a result, a vast quantity of sets and costumes have been created which are available for hire by other performing arts groups. Ballet Theatre of Queensland Ballet Theatre of Queensland, founded in 1937 by Phyllis Danaher MBE FRAD, is the oldest continuous dance company in Australia. Ballet Theatre is based in Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland. It exists to"
"unaffectedly conducted by Mr Colin Davis, meets its match, as the choreography, with its blend of primitivism and modern jive, piles climax on climax."" The Rite of Spring (MacMillan) The Rite of Spring is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1962 for the Royal Ballet. The music is Igor Stravinsky's ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The conductor was Colin Davis; the designs were by Sidney Nolan. The first performance was given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 3 May 1962. The central role of the Chosen One was danced by Monica Mason who continued to tale"
"issued on the label London. The ballet has been re-staged in several versions, notably by Peter Martins for the School of American Ballet. This production was first presented on 9 May 1981. A second premiere was given by the New York City Ballet on 21 January 1982, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with décor designed by David Mitchell, costumes by Ben Benson. List of scenes and dances from ""The Magic Flute"" taken from the published piano score and the original program of 1893. All libretti and programs of works performed on the stages of the Imperial Russian"
"The Rite of Spring (MacMillan) The Rite of Spring is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1962 for the Royal Ballet. The music is Igor Stravinsky's ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The conductor was Colin Davis; the designs were by Sidney Nolan. The first performance was given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 3 May 1962. The central role of the Chosen One was danced by Monica Mason who continued to tale the part in revivals up to 1982. Mason supervised later revivals, in which the Chosen One was danced by, among others, Tamara Rojo, (2005"
"The Rite of Spring The Rite of Spring (; ) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation. Many have called the first-night reaction a ""riot"" or ""near-riot,"" though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances in 1924, over a"
"in act 2 of ""Giselle"" (1842), in acts 2 and 4 of ""Swan Lake"" (1877/1895), in act 3 of ""La Bayadère"" (1877), and in act 1 of ""The Nutcracker"" (1892). In modern productions, dancers in the lakeside scenes of ""Swan Lake"" and the Kingdom of the Shades scene of ""La Bayadère"" sometimes wear short, classical tutus rather than the traditional calf-length or ankle-length ballet dresses, but the visually stunning effect of the ""ballet blanc"" is undiminished. In 1908, Michel Fokine revived the genre in a ballet set to the music of Frédéric Chopin that he entitled ""Chopiniana"". When a revised"
"Ballet of the Nuns Ballet of the Nuns is the first ""ballet blanc"" and the first romantic ballet. It is an episode in Act 3 of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera, ""Robert le diable"". It was first performed in November 1831 at the Paris Opéra. The choreography (now lost) was created by either Filippo Taglioni or Jean Coralli. The short ballet tells of deceased nuns rising from their tombs in a ruined cloister. Their aim is to seduce the knight, Robert le Diable, into accepting a talisman to win him a princess. At the end of the ballet, the white-clad nuns"
"Dance of the Hours Dance of the Hours (Italian: """") is a short ballet and is the act 3 finale of the opera ""La Gioconda"" composed by Amilcare Ponchielli. It depicts the hours of the day through solo and ensemble dances. The opera was first performed in 1876 and was revised in 1880. Later performed on its own, the ""Dance of the Hours"" was at one time one of the best known and most frequently performed ballets. It became even more widely known after its inclusion in the 1940 Disney animated film ""Fantasia"" where it is depicted as a comic"
"the ballet's villain changing from Odette's stepmother to the magician von Rothbart, and the ballet's finale: instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of Odette's stepmother as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an ""apotheosis"". Aside from the revision of the libretto the ballet was changed from four acts to three—with Act II becoming Act I-Scene 2. All was ready by the beginning of 1895 and the ballet had its première on"
"the ballet's original inception in 1896, the first performances of Legat's revival of ""Bluebeard"" were successful. Nevertheless, the large cast the ballet required and in particular the complex stage effects were impossible to produce by the outset of World War I in 1914. The full-length ""Bluebeard"" was performed for the last time in 1913. Excerpts from the ballet were given sporadically in galas and benefit performances until 1916, when the ballerina Elsa Vill and the danseur Fyodor Lophukov were featured in a performance of Petipa's celebrated ""Pas de deux éléctrique"". In 2009, the Russian choreographers Yuri Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev"
"ballets. The earliest ""Cinderella"" ballet proper was by Duport in Vienna in 1813, although Drury Lane's ""Cinderella"" ten years earlier had a ballet divertissement of ""Loves and Graces"" introduced by ""Venus"". London's first complete ""Cinderella"" ballet was seen in 1822, the year Paris first heard Rossini's opera ""La Cenerentola"". Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Enrico Cecchetti choreographed ""Cinderella"" for the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in 1893 to the music of Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schell—it was in this splendid production that Pierina Legnani first performed in Russia her celebrated feat of ""32 fouettes""—but none of the choreography has survived. Adeline Genée first danced"
"Novelette (ballet) Novelette is a solo modern dance work choreographed by Martha Graham to an existing piece of music, Op. 99, No. 9 from Robert Schumann's ""Bunte Blätter"", also known as ""Colored Leaves"". The ninth movement from the piano solo, also titled ""Novelette"", is a three-minute long piece in B-minor. The ballet premiered on April 18, 1926 at New York's 48 Street Theater in the first independent concert presented by Graham. The all-Graham program also featured the solos: ""Intermezzo"", ""Maid with the Flaxen Hair"", ""Clair de Lune"", ""Desir"", ""Deux Valses"", ""Masques"", ""From a Century Tapestry"" and ""A Study in Lacquer"","
"the Boston Symphony Orchestra on April 8, 1938. Piston's only dance work, ""The Incredible Flutist"", was written for the Boston Pops Orchestra, which premiered it with Arthur Fiedler conducting on May 30, 1938. The dancers were Hans Weiner and his company. Soon after, Piston arranged a concert suite including ""a selection of the best parts of the ballet."" This version was premiered by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on November 22, 1940. Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra included the suite in a 1991 RCA Victor CD recording that also featured Piston's ""Three New England Sketches"""
"(1842), ""Carlo di Rovenstein"" (1843), ""L'assedio di Leyda"" (1843), ""Sara ovvero La pazza delle montagne di Scozia"" (1843), ""Il gemello"" (1845), ""Una passeggiata sul palchetto a vapore verso Capri"" (1845), ""Giulia di Tolosa"" (1846), ""Il vampiro"" (1848), ""Bradamante e Ruggero"" (1849), ""Fiorina"" (1849), ""La regina delle rose"" (1850). He also worked at several ballets, including ""Ester d'Engaddi"" (1837), ""Il rajah di Benares"" (1839), that, similarly to other later works, was composed and represented in occasion of the birthday of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, ""Amore alla prova"" (1839), ""Il duca di Ravenna"" (1841), ""Giaffar"" (1841), ""Olga di Cracovia"" (1841),"
"Gustav Mahler's Adagietto and called it ""loud, brash and invigorating."" Friandises Friandises is a ballet in five movements written by the American composer Christopher Rouse and originally choreographed by Peter Martins. The score was jointly commissioned by the New York City Ballet and the Juilliard School and was completed in September 2005. It was first performed by the New York City Ballet February 10, 2006 at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center, New York City. The title of the piece loosely translates in the French language to ""bits"" or ""morsels"". ""Friandises"" has a duration of roughly 25 minutes"
"Hérodiade (ballet) Hérodiade de Stéphane Mallarmé: Recitation orchestrale is a composition by Paul Hindemith written in June 1944 on commission from Martha Graham, supported by funds from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The ballet premiered under the title of ""Herodiade"" (but had originally been titled ""Mirror before Me"") in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The premiere took place on 30 October 1944, sharing the program with Aaron Copland's ""Appalachian Spring"" and Darius Milhaud's ""Jeux du printemps"" (Graham's ballet title was ""Imagined Wing""), with Martha Graham and May O'Donnell in the leading roles."
"Hérodiade (ballet) Hérodiade de Stéphane Mallarmé: Recitation orchestrale is a composition by Paul Hindemith written in June 1944 on commission from Martha Graham, supported by funds from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. The ballet premiered under the title of ""Herodiade"" (but had originally been titled ""Mirror before Me"") in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The premiere took place on 30 October 1944, sharing the program with Aaron Copland's ""Appalachian Spring"" and Darius Milhaud's ""Jeux du printemps"" (Graham's ballet title was ""Imagined Wing""), with Martha Graham and May O'Donnell in the leading roles."
"originally staged in 1848 to the music of Cesare Pugni. The notations for this work were created by Stepanov after consulting Christian Johansson, who participated in the 1848 production and many performances thereafter. The reconstruction of ""Le Rêve du peintre"" was performed by students of the Imperial Ballet School on . Based on the success of these notations, Stepanov's project was approved and he soon began to notate the repertory of the Imperial Ballet. Among the first pieces to be documented was Petipa's 1894 ballet ""Le Réveil de Flore"" and the scene ""Le jardin animé"" from the ballet ""Le Corsaire""."
"The Red Poppy The Red Poppy () or sometimes The Red Flower () is a ballet in three acts and eight tableaux with an apotheosis, with a score written by Reinhold Glière and libretto by Mikhail Kurilko. This ballet was created in 1927 as the first Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme. Possibly the most famous dance from this ballet is the Sailors Dance, sometimes referred to as the ""Russian Sailors Dance"" (although it is described as ""Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship"" in the score and libretto). It is this musical selection for which Glière is"
"The Red Poppy The Red Poppy () or sometimes The Red Flower () is a ballet in three acts and eight tableaux with an apotheosis, with a score written by Reinhold Glière and libretto by Mikhail Kurilko. This ballet was created in 1927 as the first Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme. Possibly the most famous dance from this ballet is the Sailors Dance, sometimes referred to as the ""Russian Sailors Dance"" (although it is described as ""Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship"" in the score and libretto). It is this musical selection for which Glière is"
"from the ballet, which was premiered on November 22, 1940 by the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. The suite is in thirteen movements: Elliott Carter has commented on how Piston avoided the use of particular musical geographic ""pastiche"" style in the music, which could have made the setting specific to one geography, and noted that the village can be ""any village"" in this setting. The Incredible Flutist The Incredible Flutist is a ballet composed by Walter Piston in 1938, his only composition for the stage. The ballet received its premiere by the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler on May 30"
"9, 1945, at New York City Center. The New York City Ballet premiere was October 11, 1948, as one of three ballets on the program of its first performance at New York City Center. Three years later, in 1951, Balanchine replaced the original costumes with leotards and tights, in what has come to be regarded as signature costumes for his contemporary works. He said that in the first movement of ""Concerto Barocco"" the two ballerinas personify the violins, and that, ""If the dance designer sees in the development of classical dancing a counterpart in the development of music, and has"
"Rodeo (ballet) Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled ""The Courting at Burnt Ranch"", the ballet consists of five sections: ""Buckaroo Holiday"", ""Corral Nocturne"", ""Ranch House Party,"" ""Saturday Night Waltz"", and ""Hoe-Down"". The symphonic version omits ""Ranch House Party"", leaving the other sections relatively intact. The original ballet was choreographed by Agnes de Mille for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a dance company that moved to the United States during World War II. In order to compete with the rival company Ballet Theatre, the Ballet Russe commissioned"
"The Spider's Feast The Spider's Feast (Le Festin de l'araignée), Op. 17, is a 1912 ""ballet-pantomime"" with music by the French composer Albert Roussel (1869–1937) to a scenario by Gilbert de Voisins. The ballet depicts insect life in a garden, evoked by the flute solo at the opening and close of the work, and where insects are trapped in the spider's web, but when the spider prepares to begin its feast, it in turn is killed by a praying mantis. The funeral procession of the mayfly concludes the work. The full ballet lasts approximately half an hour. ""Part One"" ""Part"
"The Rite of Spring discography This is a sound and video discography of Igor Stravinsky's ballet ""The Rite of Spring"". The work was premiered in Paris on May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. It was presented by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and was conducted by Pierre Monteux. The list includes many of the most noted recordings of the work but is by no means exhaustive. The avant-garde character of the music, combined with Nijinsky's innovative choreography, caused a near riot at the first performance. It has since gained wide acceptance both as a"
"Ballet Theatre (1937), The Royal Winnipeg Ballet (1939), The Australian Ballet (1940), the New York City Ballet (1948), the National Ballet of Canada (1951), and the National Ballet Academy and Trust of India (2002). In the 20th century styles of ballet continued to develop and strongly influence broader concert dance, for example, in the United States choreographer George Balanchine developed what is now known as neoclassical ballet, subsequent developments have included contemporary ballet and post-structural ballet, for example seen in the work of William Forsythe in Germany. The etymology of the word ""ballet"" reflects its history. The word ""ballet"" comes"
"Theatres were titled in French, which was the official language of the Imperial Court as well as the language from which balletic terminology is derived. Ballet comique in one act The Magic Flute (ballet) La flûte magique (en. ""The Magic Flute"") (ru. «Волшебная флейта», ""Volshebnaya Fleita"") is a ""ballet comique"" in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo. Although it has the same title as Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"", the two works have no other connection. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School at the school's theatre on . The principal"
"Friandises Friandises is a ballet in five movements written by the American composer Christopher Rouse and originally choreographed by Peter Martins. The score was jointly commissioned by the New York City Ballet and the Juilliard School and was completed in September 2005. It was first performed by the New York City Ballet February 10, 2006 at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center, New York City. The title of the piece loosely translates in the French language to ""bits"" or ""morsels"". ""Friandises"" has a duration of roughly 25 minutes and is composed in five movements in the style of"
"Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Borovansky Ballet, the Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, London Festival Ballet, Polski Balet Narodowy, the Royal Danish Ballet, and numerous regional companies associated with ballet schools and academies. Graduation Ball Graduation Ball is a ballet in one act choreographed by David Lichine to music composed by Johann Strauss II and arranged by Antal Doráti. With a scenario devised by Lichine and with scenery and costumes designed by Alexandre Benois, it was first presented by the Original Ballet Russe at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia, on 1 March 1940. The ballet is set"
"Red Detachment of Women (ballet) The Red Detachment of Women () is a Chinese ballet which premiered in 1964 and was made one of the Eight Model Operas which dominated the national stage during the Cultural Revolution. It is best known in the West as the ballet performed for U.S. President Richard Nixon on his visit to China in February 1972. Adapted from the earlier 1961 film of the same title under the personal direction of Zhou Enlai, which in turn adapted from the novel by Liang Xin, it depicts the liberation of a peasant girl in Hainan Island and"
"their revolutionary cause. Major numbers: Red Detachment of Women (ballet) The Red Detachment of Women () is a Chinese ballet which premiered in 1964 and was made one of the Eight Model Operas which dominated the national stage during the Cultural Revolution. It is best known in the West as the ballet performed for U.S. President Richard Nixon on his visit to China in February 1972. Adapted from the earlier 1961 film of the same title under the personal direction of Zhou Enlai, which in turn adapted from the novel by Liang Xin, it depicts the liberation of a peasant"
"Armenian Dances Armenian Dances is a musical piece for concert band, written by Alfred Reed (1921–2005). It is a four-movement suite, of which Armenian Dances (Part I) comprises the first movement and Armenian Dances (Part II) comprises the remaining three. Each part consists of a number of Armenian folk songs from the collection of Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935), an Armenian ethnomusicologist. Armenian Dances (Part I) was completed in the summer of 1972 and first performed by the University of Illinois Symphonic Band on January 10, 1973. The piece is dedicated to Dr. Harry Begian, the director of that ensemble. The work"
"The Prince of the Pagodas The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet in 1957, by choreographer John Cranko, with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. The ballet was later revived in a new production by Kenneth MacMillan in 1989, achieving widespread acclaim for Darcey Bussell's premiere in a principal role. The world premiere of Cranko's original production took place on 1 January 1957 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, conducted by the composer. MacMillan's production premiering at the same venue on 7 December 1989. A recording of a slightly cut version of the"